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The Mind of Seokchoen's Poetry Creation - Philosophy and Poetics

  • The Studies in Korean Poetry and Culture
  • Abbr : Korean Poetry and Culture
  • 2016, (37), pp.243-284
  • Publisher : The Society of Korean Poetry and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Choi Han Sun 1

1전남도립대학교

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ABSTRACT

There is a close relationship between a poet and his poetics. His philosophy has great effect on forming poetics. Seokchoen Im Eokyrung(1496~1568) is one of important poets in mid Chosun Dynasty. He wrote as many as 2,500 poems which classified narrative and lyrical poems. His voluminous poems shows his unique poetic mind and original poetics. His poetics must be formed with combining periodical situation, reading, and teachers. Among other things, his philosophy has great influence on forming his poetics. He was a confucian scholar who emphasizes real society focusing making nations great based on the confucianism. He has formed his philosophy through reading Tao Yuan Ming(도연명). Tao Yuan Ming was a pioneer to practice the teachings of Chung Yong(중용) in the real world. Criticism about condition of the society, love for the ordinary people is the theme of his narrative poems. He acquired the knowledge of Zhuangzi(장자) by his teacher and approached the philosophy of Lao-tzu(노자) and Buddhism by reading. These various learning contribute his poem to deepen philosophy and make his self-complacent and plain narrative poems broaden perspective. So his poems represent realist view, criticism on the world, expressing nature, and mission of the scholar distinctively. It is important to remember that the thought of Zhuangzi, Buddhism and Lao-tze in his poems is not the representation of inclination of these thoughts but only method of explaining real world.

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